Gay Marriage And Its Slow Progression Of Acceptance

Documenting her travel to the Kinsey Institute in 2004, as well as providing some modern insights into the effects of Kinsey’s work, Karen Winkler also provides an interesting glimpse into how Kinsey’s challenges to the scientific and social orthodoxy regarding sexuality has led to intense backlash that persists to this day in Kinsey, Sex Research, and the Body of Knowledge: Let’s Talk About Sex. Specifically, Winkler references groups like the Traditional Values Coalition, which to this day continue to lobby Congress and the National Institute of Health to cut funding to sex research (Winkler). Using unsubstantiated charges like accusing Kinsey of pedophilia and child pornography as a means of discrediting his work, this continuing smear campaign of Kinsey’s work is indicative of what often happens when challenges to popular conceptions of normalcy are confronted by conservative forces; challenges of sexual and moral deviancy, very similar to how bachelors were often accused of homosexuality in the immediate postwar

The ethical standings of Kinsey have been examined numerous times, for the subject matter alone is open for scrutiny. The first rule of ethics states that the participants of scientific research must provide informed consent. All of the almost 12,000 participants of Kinsey’s surveys gave their consent (Griffitt and Hatfield). The next rule of ethics is voluntary participation of the test subjects. All participants in Kinsey’s surveys voluntarily agreed to participate (Griffitt and Hatfield). The problem, however, was when Kinsey used data collected from home videos he made in his attic or when he tested the sexuality of children (Keith). Many of the children in these experiments were sexually assaulted by an adult, which is not a consented act, yet Kinsey used the data to help prove his theories (Keith). The third rule of ethics is restricting the use of deception and debriefing the participants at the end of the experiment. The participants in Kinsey’s research were not deceived when they were answering his surveys, which did not require deception or debriefing (Griffitt and Hatfield). Confidentiality is the next rule of ethics, and Kinsey never disclosed the identities of the participants (Griffitt and Hatfield). The final rule of

To begin with, Kinsey is known to be a famously flawed icon because of his problematic research sampling. It is said to be not representative of the population at the time since he mostly interviewed volunteers, who were apparently more open in sexual-related topic – perhaps because they had sex lives. In the 1990s, Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, who conducted a similar research, smaller scale yet more reliable than Kinsey’s. His findings state that less than 5% of men are gay (half of Kinsey’s figure) and only 25 percent of married men (and roughly 15 percent of married women) reported having had extramarital sex.

·         What sex researcher theorized that sexual orientation could be delineated on one basic continuum, broken down into seven parts? (Page 221) Alfred Kinsey

​Sex was such a horrible topic to talk about, but a biologist of Indiana University introduced a scale that broke the silence. The silence changed due to this biologist named Alfred C. Kinsey (1894-1956). Kinsey broke the silence because before the scale everyone would keep their sexual orientation to themselves and most likely did not tell anyone. In other words, he was a great influence to people because since then people have become a bit more open about themselves. The importance of Kinsey is that he has conducted several of researches. For instance, on one of his research he found out that many people had sexual experiences with both female

“It wasn’t always this way-- straight or gay, heterosexual or homosexual, normal or abnormal…. ‘Research

Albert Kinsey helped change the American Public’s preconceptions on sexuality by publishing two bestselling books from 1947 to 1953 on the topic. Titled “American Sexual Behavior” and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, these books both confirmed and challenged the generally held beliefs dealing with marriage, sexual gratification, and sexual orientation. Sex was deemed important for a healthy marriage, adultery was frequent and homosexuals weren’t weird anomalies.

The reading of “Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report”, it really point out interesting opinion and reports, that he had throughout his life. Many of his surveys, opinions, and research put him in a fight with other other professional’s opinion, such psychiatrists, educators, physicians that dominate this subjects of sexual activities. Kinsey strategy was to interview people in order to obtain information from cases that help him to find these number that helps him to find a conclusion in sex behavior activities. One of the tactics that he had that help him was the “seven-point bipolar scale” (Kinsey, 58). This method helps him to find the answers to their questions in an in a controversial way on how he collected his information with topics

Demythologizing the Kinsey Report addresses the sampling techniques and questions, whether they were based purely on scientific information, in addition many of the subjects were partial. Many of them were child molesters and he devoted larger volumes to homosexuals, than compared to heterosexuals or married couples. The information was not a true representation of the American population. The author of Histories of Sexuality: A Sexual Revolution points out other problematic biases, which include social diversity and ethnic participation. Instead, he primarily focused on young Anglo Americans who voluntarily joined the study. The interviews included predominately Midwesterners, homosexuals, and prisoners. Kinsey did not truly represent the average Americans, so his sampling methods proved bias. Kinsey and his staff became personally involved with subjects, so this likely jeopardized the final outcome. He also allowed his personal beliefs to taint his objectivity. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Pioneer of Sex Research tells of Kinsey’s own inadequacies which triggered his warped need for perfection resulting in his flawed and problematic views. Any kind of unjust involvement could compromise the final findings of the research. Kinsey bias methods may have compromised his entire work leaving many to question his methods and influence upon

Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, revealing to the public that homosexuality is far more widespread than was commonly believed.

In any case, a few people don't feel that they fall into the gender binary and they question or test the male-manly and female-ladylike double. For instance, people that distinguish as transgender feel that their gender identity does not coordinate their natural sex. People that distinguish as gender queer challenge characterizations of manly and ladylike, and may recognize as some place other than male and female, in the middle of male and female, a mix of male and female, or a third or forward, or fifth continuing in sex inside and out. These personalities exhibit the smoothness of sexual orientation, which is so as often as possible thought to be organic and unchanging. Sexual orientation smoothness additionally demonstrates how sex standards are found out and either acknowledged or dismisses by the mingled

Sexual orientation can be considered as one of America’s most controversial topics. Although the rationale and choice differs from person to person, and is considered to be a private matter of personal preference, many people have experienced negative backlash and harsh criticism due to their individual likings. In general, sexual orientation is defined as: a person 's sexual identity in relation to the gender to which they are attracted; the fact of being heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. While the definition seems to be straightforward and concise, the subject of sexual orientation encompasses much more than just the intensity of emotional and erotic attraction and response to members of the opposite sex, the same sex, or both

Early efforts to understand the range of human sexual behavior came from European doctors and scientists, including Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfield (American Psychological Association, (APA), n.d). Sexuality is an important aspect of a person’s identity. Many challenges had were overcome for the LGBT population to express that part of their identity.

Throughout history there has been speculation about what influences sexuality in men and woman. Is sexual orientation biological or cultural in nature? There is a common misconception that sexual identity operate in parallel with gender roles( Sell, 2005 as cited in Wilkinson & Roys, 2005, p.65). Scholars have not came to an agreement regarding what actually comprise a person’s sexual orientation, however a sexual orientation has been deemed a cumulative experience and interaction of emotional and sexual feelings towards one or both genders (Wilkinson & Roys, 2005, p.65). The paper provides provides some clues as to what factors influence sexual orientation in men and woman.

Upon entering this course, my understanding of human sexuality was decent; I was aware of certain aspects of sexuality such as being straight, gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, etc. Nevertheless, I did not realize how expansive sexuality is; it never occurred to me that sexual health, prostitution, marriage, rape, sex trafficking, divorce, families, etc., all fell under the umbrella of human sexuality. Books and essays such as Renee Hill’s Walk Together and David Shneer’s “Out of School” showcased the multiple facets of human sexuality and how terms like queer are not directly related to homosexuality. While sexuality and homosexuality are linked, frequently, people mistake them as being synonymous; before entering this class, I was searching for a definition of sexuality, and often in the thesaurus section of dictionary websites homosexuality and or sexual orientation was considered a synonym of sexuality. Formerly, I too would have agreed they were the same, however, after taking this course, I concluded that homosexuality is just one topic in the broad discussion of sexuality. My understanding of sexuality now is that it